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Commonly with virtual console games, you can hit the center button (Wii menu?), and exit the game. This will automatically save the state of the game. Next time the game loads you'll begin at that spot; however, after reloading once the save state is no longer available -- resetting the system won't allow you to resume from that state again.

+1. This is true of all of the virtual console games, as far as I know. This is possible because they're all emulated, and so it's easy to just write the state of the simulator to disk.
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jpreteAug 31 '11 at 22:03

+1, great to know. This will be useful if I'm in the depths of a dungeon and don't want to completely reset. I'll probably use a combination of my approach and yours.
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MikeSep 1 '11 at 1:27

You also have the opportunity to save when you die. Since you always start in the same place when you load a game, there's no difference between the two ways of saving except convenience.
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SevenSidedDieAug 31 '11 at 17:50

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@SevenSidedDie — At the time, many considered it a point of pride to complete the game with their death counter still at 0. Thus, a significant difference between "save while alive" and "save after dying". ;-)
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Ben BlankAug 31 '11 at 22:26